TV Shows Will Soon Be Weaving Obamacare Into Plotlines

Mediaite ^ | 11--4-13

[Dysart]

Young people are key for the Affordable Care Act to work, and as a result of a half-million-dollar grant by the California Endowment, TV shows regularly consumed by these young people will soon be weaving Obamacare into plotlines in order to get more of them enrolled in the health care program.

If you’ve ever watched Modern Family or New Girl and thought, “Gee, if only I was learning about the benefits of a complex federal program during this, it would be so much better,” you’re in luck!

The 18-month grant, to the Lear Center’s Hollywood Health & Society program, will be used for briefings with staff from television shows and to track health overhaul-related depictions on prime-time and Spanish-language television.

Since the grant money was provided so recently, no plot lines involving health care have been written…

[Dysart]

I foresee some spin offs of popular shows. For instance, there may also be some mashups of series titles to link healthcare reform messaging to the popular shows

Keeping Up With The Mandate Absconders

The Walking Dead Tea Party

Petty Little Liars SVU

Burnout Notice

[Dysart]

How I Met Your Mother's Death Panel

[ilovesarah2012]

I heard this on Fox tonight and could not believe it. Obama really is insane. I am so ashamed that Americans could have been so stupid. It goes beyond “low information voters”. You have to be an idiot to have supported anyone like Obama. I am thoroughly disgusted.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Once the programs are announced I will be sure to boycott them..if I want to see pravda propaganda I can just watch MSNBC but I dont want my eyes to bleed

[Paladin2]

"Weaving Obama[Dont]care Into Plotlines" "

Sunk they'll be."

[x]

Too late to see how Walter White would react to the death panel ...

[stars & stripes forever]

It’s time to pull the plug on TV and do something constructive

[LowTaxesEqualsProsperity]

Obama is not insane. He is evil.

[rfp1234]

Producers will weave, viewers will heave.

[LostInBayport]

The Amazing Race (to Find a New Doctor)

Keeping Up with the Kevorkians

The Young and the Overinsured

America's Got Socialism

No Life to Live

[ilovesarah2012]

I agree. He is evil. And so are his worshippers.

[laplata]

I agree...this will backfire.

[dragnet2]

The government knows those drooling in cups sit around gawking at TV and sports half their lives..

So this is where they’ll set up their propaganda broadcasts.

Just like they’ve always done.

[workerbee]

American Healthcare Horror Story

Criminal Minds Who Run Healthcare.gov

Grimm Stories of Death Panels

[AmericanMermaid]

Agreed totally.

Other than Fox & Friends, I don’t watch much TV as it is. Now I’ve gotten even LESS reason to watch it.

[rockrr]

[Travis McGee]

They will rush to put on their chains, as long as they come with an upgraded cable package and unlimited data.

[PA Engineer]

I heard this on Fox tonight and could not believe it. Obama really is insane. I am so ashamed that Americans could have been so stupid. It goes beyond “low information voters”. You have to be an idiot to have supported anyone like Obama. I am thoroughly disgusted.

Obama is not insane, however he is pure evil. LIVs get their information from fictional characters shaped by propaganda in a Potemkin reality. TV fiction is the primary shaper of reality for many Americans or LIVs.

The interesting lesson from this is the panic of the occupation. We have reached a point where they are challenging their followers to continue believing in TV fairy tales and not their lying eyes.

[DemforBush]

I’m sure the Law and Order franchise (almost surely SVU) will be all over this. We’ll here about a victim who can only get the counseling she needs to heal if she signs up for the ACA.

[DemforBush]

hear about it, too.

danged homophones!